296 ERICACER (Guthrie & Bolus). | Brica. 
long; bracts approximate or subapproximate, ovate or lanceolate, 
scarious, 4—% lin. long; sepals ovate-orbicular, keeled and keel- 
tipped, scarious, whitish, about 1 lin. long, reaching about or nearly 
half-way up the corolla; corolla obconic-campanulate, white, 2 lin. 
long ; segments widely-spreading or subrecurved, ovate, very obtuse, 
in length equal to the tube; filaments very slender; anthers in- 
cluded, submanifest, sublateral; cells bipartite, broadly oblong, in- 
curved, with a thick dorsal ridge, scaberulous, dark brown or reddish, 
nearly {§ lin. long, subulate-aristate; pore 4—2 the length of the 
cell; awns hairy or eiliolate or naked, sometimes decurrent for a 
short distance along the filament at its apex, nearly as long as the 
cell; style exserted; stigma capitate; ovary glabrous. Benth. in 
DC. Prodr. vii. 686. 
Coast Region: Caledon Div.; on the Zwart Berg, near Caledon, 1300- 
3400 ft., Mund, 35! Bolus, 6746! 9167! Schlechter, 5542! mountains near the 
Zondereinde River, Guthrie, 3281! and without precise locality, Ecklon JS 
Zeyher ! Robertson Div, ; mountains near Montagu Bath (warm springs), Bolus, 
8294! 
A fairly distinct species. From others which resemble it externally it may 
be known by its anthers; these are somewhat like those of E. lachnecefolia, 
Salisb., but the awns are not or only slightly adherent to the filament, and the 
whule aspect of the plant is otherwise very different. 
449. E. lucida (Salish. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 337); erect, 
stout, 1-12 ft. or more high; branches ascending, mostly flexuous, 
sometimes subvirgate, usually floccose-tomentose, as are the pedicels, 
with short greyish plumulose hairs, more rarely puberulous ; leaves 
erect, often adpressed, imbricate, rarely somewhat spreading, linear- 
trigonous, subacute, sulcate, glossy, 1-3 (mostly 2-21) lin. long; 
flowers numerous, mostly crowded at the ends of short lateral branch- 
lets, calycine, glossy ; pedicels tomentose or rarely subglabrous, 
1-1} lin. long ; bracts approximate to subremote, ovate, coloured, 
shorter than the sepals; sepals imbricate below and somewhat 
spreading at the apex, ovate or obovate, acute or obtuse and cuspi- 
date, keeled, concave, thick, rigid, ciliate or rarely naked, glossy, 
coloured, 1-1} lin. long, reaching 2—% the length of the corolla; 
corolla campanulate, cyathiform or subglobose-urceolate, only in the 
last-named form, very slightly contracted at the throat, 14-1} lin. 
long, red or rosy ; segments spreading, sometimes horizontally, ovate, 
3-{ the length of the tube; anthers included, lateral, oblong, 
obtuse ; cells bipartite, 2-1 lin. long, crested; pore about 3 the 
length of the cell; crests suborbicular in outline, deeply incised, 
about 3 the length of the cell; style shortly exserted; stigma 
capitellate; ovary glabrous. Andr. Heathery, t. 172, and Col. 
Heaths, t. 109; Benth. in DC. Prodr. vii. 687. LE. rigidifolia, 
Wendl. Eric. Ie. fase. 20, 125, t. 48. E. nitens, Bartl. in Linnea, 
Vii. 652. a 
Var. 8, pauciflora (Bolus); branches more slender; leaves fewer, more 
adpressed and smaller; flowers fewer, less glossy, and a little smaller (1 lin. 
